God and the Secular Legal System

God and the Secular Legal System
Author: Rafael Domingo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2016-09-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110714731X

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This is a timely contribution to the debate on the rights and liberties of religion, beliefs, and conscience in an age of secularization.

God and the Secular Legal System

God and the Secular Legal System
Author: Rafael Domingo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-11-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781316601273

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This timely book offers a theistic approach to secular legal systems and demonstrates that these systems are neither agnostic nor atheist. Critical but succinct in its approach, this book focuses on an extensive range of liberal legal approaches to religious and moral issues, and subjects them to critical scrutiny from a secular perspective. Expertly written by a leading scholar, the author offers a rare combination of profundity of ideas and simplicity of expression. It is a ringing defense of the theistic conception of secular legal systems and an uncompromising attack on the agnostic and atheist conception.

Religion without God

Religion without God
Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674728041

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In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions that men and women have asked through the ages: What is religion and what is God’s place in it? What is death and what is immortality? Based on the 2011 Einstein Lectures, Religion without God is inspired by remarks Einstein made that if religion consists of awe toward mysteries which “manifest themselves in the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, and which our dull faculties can comprehend only in the most primitive forms,” then, he, Einstein, was a religious person. Dworkin joins Einstein’s sense of cosmic mystery and beauty to the claim that value is objective, independent of mind, and immanent in the world. He rejects the metaphysics of naturalism—that nothing is real except what can be studied by the natural sciences. Belief in God is one manifestation of this deeper worldview, but not the only one. The conviction that God underwrites value presupposes a prior commitment to the independent reality of that value—a commitment that is available to nonbelievers as well. So theists share a commitment with some atheists that is more fundamental than what divides them. Freedom of religion should flow not from a respect for belief in God but from the right to ethical independence. Dworkin hoped that this short book would contribute to rational conversation and the softening of religious fear and hatred. Religion without God is the work of a humanist who recognized both the possibilities and limitations of humanity.

God and the Secular Legal System

God and the Secular Legal System
Author: Rafael Domingo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2016-09-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316652343

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This timely book offers a theistic approach to secular legal systems and demonstrates that these systems are neither agnostic nor atheist. Critical but succinct in its approach, this book focuses on an extensive range of liberal legal approaches to religious and moral issues, and subjects them to critical scrutiny from a secular perspective. Expertly written by a leading scholar, the author offers a rare combination of profundity of ideas and simplicity of expression. It is a ringing defense of the theistic conception of secular legal systems and an uncompromising attack on the agnostic and atheist conception.

Christian Legal Thought

Christian Legal Thought
Author: Patrick M. Brennan
Publisher: Foundation Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Christianity and law
ISBN: 9781609302313

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Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy

Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy
Author: Jean L. Cohen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0231540736

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Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It identifies which connections between religion and the state are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the United States and Western Europe. Approaching this issue from philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the contributors wage a thorough defense of their project's theoretical and institutional legitimacy. Their work brings fresh insight to debates over the balance of human rights and religious freedom, the proper definition of a nonestablishment norm, and the relationship between sovereignty and legal pluralism. They discuss the genealogy of and tensions involving international legal rights to religious freedom, religious symbols in public spaces, religious arguments in public debates, the jurisdiction of religious authorities in personal law, and the dilemmas of religious accommodation in national constitutions and public policy when it violates international human rights agreements or liberal-democratic principles. If we profoundly rethink the concepts of religion and secularism, these thinkers argue, a principled adjudication of competing claims becomes possible.

Three Secular Reasons Why America Should Be Under God

Three Secular Reasons Why America Should Be Under God
Author: William J. Federer
Publisher: Amerisearch, Inc.
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780975345511

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"All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" - Declaration of Independence, 1776 Do you like having rights the government cannot take away? Do you like being equal? Do you like a country with few laws? Then you want America under God! "The Rights of man Come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God" - John F. Kennedy, 1961, Inaugural Address "We believe that all men are created equal, because they are created in the image of God" - Harry S Truman, 1949, Inaugural Address "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people, it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other" - John Adams, 1798, Letter to the Massachusetts Third Division

Christianity and Criminal Law

Christianity and Criminal Law
Author: Mark Hill QC
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000071553

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This collection, by leading legal scholars, judges and practitioners, together with theologians and church historians, presents historical, theological, philosophical and legal perspectives on Christianity and criminal law. Following a Preface by Lord Judge, formerly Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and an introductory chapter, the book is divided into four thematic sections. Part I addresses the historical contributions of Christianity to criminal law drawing on biblical sources, early church fathers and canonists, as far as the Enlightenment. Part II, titled Christianity and the principles of criminal law, compares crime and sin, examines concepts of mens rea and intention, and considers the virtue of due process within criminal justice. Part III looks at Christianity and criminal offences, considering their Christian origins and continuing relevance for several basic crimes that every legal system prohibits. Finally, in Part IV, the authors consider Christianity and the enforcement of criminal law, looking at defences, punishment and forgiveness. The book will be an invaluable resource for students and academics working in the areas of Law and Religion, Legal Philosophy and Theology.

Faith and Order

Faith and Order
Author: Harold J. Berman
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802848529

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This book argues that despite the tensions existing in all societies between religious faith and legal order, they inevitably interact. In the course of his discussion Berman traces the history of Western law, exposes the fallacies of law theories that fail to take religion into account, examines key theological, prophetic, and educational themes, and looks at the role of religion in the Soviet and post-Soviet state.

Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival

Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival
Author: Susanna Mancini
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2014
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199660387

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Traditional models of constitutional secularism have struggled to accommodate the modern revival of religious politics. The concept has been criticised as empty or illegitimate, while political and legal struggles have contested its meaning. This book gathers leading experts to examine the scope and substance of constitutional secularism today.